An evaluation of railway passenger transport in Turkey using life cycle assessment and life cycle cost methods

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

Volumn 41, Issue , 2015, Pages 88-105

  Banar, Müfide ^a   Özdemir, Alp ^a  

^a ANADOLU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Conventional Railway (CR); High Speed Railway (HSR); Life Cycle Assessment (LCA); Life Cycle Cost (LCC); Turkey

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS; EUTROPHICATION; GLOBAL WARMING; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RAILROAD ACCIDENTS; RAILROAD ENGINEERING; RAILROAD PLANT AND STRUCTURES; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; RAILS; TOXICITY; TRANSPORTATION;

CONVENTIONAL RAILWAY (CR); HIGH SPEED RAILWAYS (HSR); LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LIFE CYCLE COSTS (LCC); TURKEY;

LIFE CYCLE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST ANALYSIS; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; SOFTWARE; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

TURKEY;

EID: 84945191007     PISSN: 13619209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2015.09.017     Document Type: Article

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